profligacy for his fortune, and gave guidance to other gods to chase after salvation for the good of their descendants, for this hermaphrodite had to yield to the gods and entrust fortune further to others, while his government had come to an end through the first beginning, and all who had been helpful to Mercury disappeared from sight, for his birth was accomplished and had been fulfilled through the first day.

The Second Chapter.

Of the Birth

of Saturn.

A goddess of fortune lived after midnight in the very high, cold mountains by the island of Thele original: "Θελη". She was called Vesta, and she had taken Mercury as a father and a god for a husband, who was called Cœlus. These two had no one around them, for they were alone. They went hunting and ate the roots of the earth,